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Epopeya griega que cuenta las aventuras de Odisea —Ulises— en su camino de Troya a su patria, Itaca, ha sido siempre una fuente de inspiración para escritores y artistas. Un relato inolvidable cuyo p

The Iliad is an ancient Greek epic poem in dactylic hexameter, traditionally attributed to Homer. Set during the Trojan War, the ten-year siege of the city of Troy (Ilium) by a coalition of Greek states, it tells of the battles and events during the weeks of a quarrel between King Agamemnon and the warrior Achilles. The Iliad is paired with something of a sequel, the Odyssey, also attributed to Homer.

En el darrer any de la guerra contra Toia, Aquil·les, irat contra Agamemmon que li ha pres la captiva Briseida, es retira del combat. La seva absencia ocasiona desastres terribles i provoca la desfeta de les forces aquees. Nomes una segona i mes terrible colera, causada per la mort del seu amic Patrocle, empenyera Aquil·les de nou a la batalla. Un poema, tradut ara per primera vegada en prosa, d'una sostinguda grandesa i tambe ple d'una eterna veritat humana, dins una atmosfera de poderosa fantasia.

To the modern reader Homer's Odyssey is perhaps the most relevant and engaging of all the classical epics. It was not by chance that James Joyce, the mentor of Samuel Beckett, chose Ulysses as the title for his own epoch-defining novel. So successful was Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad that the great English 18th-century poet then turned his hand - with the assistance of several collaborators - to the translation of Homer's second epic. A new introduction argues that Pope's Odyssey provides a fascinating window for the modern reader onto eighteenth-century attitudes and prejudices. Though it has been much neglected, Pope's Odyssey is in many respects a more interesting and stimulating text than his celebrated Iliad. Unusually for a work of this kind, the text is presented in a reader-friendly format,with generous space for personal annotations and references. Robert Shorrock teaches Classics at Eton College, Windsor. He received his PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1999 and is the author of The Challenge of Epic: Allusive Engagement in the Dionysiaca of Nonnus (Leiden, 2001). He has published a number of articles on epic poetry and the Classical Tradition, and is co-editor of the journal Greece & Rome.

Robert Fagles's stunning modern-verse translation-available at last in our black-spine classics lineA Penguin ClassicThe Odyssey is literature's grandest evocation of everyman's journey through life. In the myths and legends that are retold here, renowned translator Robert Fagles has captured the energy and poetry of Homer's original in a bold, contemporary idiom and given us an Odyssey to read aloud, to savor, and to treasure for its sheer lyrical mastery. This is an Odyssey to delight both the classicist and the general reader, and to captivate a new generation of Homer's students.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The present translation of the Iliad will, it is hoped, be found to convey, more accurately than any which has preceded it, the words and thoughts of the original. It is based upon a careful examination of whatever has been contributed by scholars of every age towards the elucidation of the text, including the ancient scholiasts and lexicographers, the exegetical labours of Barnes and Clarke, and the elaborate criticisms of Heyne, Wolf, and their successors.The necessary brevity of the notes has prevented the full discussion of many passages where there is great room for difference of opinion, and hence several interpretations are adopted without question, which, had the editors object been to write a critical commentary, would have undergone a more lengthened examination. The same reason has compelled him, in many instances, to substitute references for extracts, indicating rather than quoting those storehouses of information, from whose abundant contents he would gladly have drawn more copious supplies. Among the numerous works to which he has had recourse, the following deserve particular mention-Albertis invaluable edition of Hesychius, the Commentary of Eustathius, and Buttmanns Lexilogus.In the succeeding volume, the Odyssey, Hymns, and minor poems will be produced in a similar manner.THEODORE ALOIS BUCKLEY

Das Epos von König Odysseus ist zu einem Urmythos der abendländischen Kultur geworden. Odysseus kann durch seine Beharrlichkeit und seinen Einfallsreichtum von seiner verworrenen Reise heimkehren. Die imaginative Kraft, die heldenhafte Größe dieser über 2500 Jahre alten Geschichte besticht noch heute mit ihrer bilderreichen Schönheit und inspiriert mit ihrem Schatz an irrwitzigen Geschichten so skurrile Verfilmungen wie die Mississippi-Odyssee O Brother, Where Art Thou der Kultregisseurbrüder Coen.

La Ilíada y la Odisea de Homero son las dos obras clásicas por antonomasia. Las heroicas batallas de Aquiles y el épico viaje de Ulises constituyen dos relatos únicos que han sobrevivido al paso de los siglos y se han asentado para siempre como fundamento basico de la cultura occidental. Edicion especial en caja.

La Ilíada es un poema de sostinguda grandesa i ple d’una eterna i crua veritat humana. Homer ens atansa a un món ple de violencia i de passions primàries, sense matisos, en que el motor de l’acció no

De modo casi unánime (señala el poeta y traductor José Luís Rivas en el prólogo que abre esta edición); la Ilíada es considerada una de las dos obras cumbre de la literatura europea (la otra es la Odisea). Fuente inagotable de vida desde su aparicion; la epopeya de Hector y Aquiles puede aspirar con pleno derecho al titulo de piedra angular de nuestra civilizacion. Su enorme influencia; de inicio determinante para la literatura griega; no ha dejado de fecundar el desarrollo del pensamiento y las creaciones artisticas de la civilizacion helenica; asi como de robustecer a la vez las solidas columnas de la gran cultura europea~.Sintesis del mundo mitico de la antigua Grecia; la Iliada; cuya antiguedad se remonta al siglo VIII antes de nuestra era y narra las vicisitudes ocurridas a troyanos y aqueos en el ultimo año de la guerra de Troya; encierra relatos realistas y fantasticos; fabulosos; graves; tragicos; y contiene un tesoro de pensamientos; formas linguisticas; conjeturas cosmologicas y preceptos morales. Como casi toda gran literatura; concentra (o parece concentrar) el universo entero; la epica humana en sus multiples posibilidades y situaciones; pero tambien el resplandor antojadizo y omnipresente de lo divino.De la biografia de quien compuso el poema ignoramos todo y casi todo de la manera como los cantos llegaron hasta nosotros. Algunos eruditos sostienen que es improbable que la Iliada y la Odisea sean obra de un mismo autor: que Homero es una suma; un conjunto o una colectividad de poetas. Otros; sin embargo; aventuran la hipotesis de que ambas epopeyas podrian provenir de una misma pluma; en la isla de Quios; al este de Grecia. Una cosa es segura: del lugar oscuro en que un hombre llamado Homero urdio o compagino estas historias inmortales; una luz irradiara; hasta que las culturas existan; a la humanidad entera.